trying to avoid spam is not easy, and the same holds true for properly dealing with it. i usually maintain dedicated ham and spam folders to train my spam filter, and while it is hard to quantify how well that works, it is usually said that it works pretty well.
since i got my new iphone, however, i have switched back to making spammers very happy people. not intentionally, of course, but since apple in its endless quest to make everything look neat and simple has probably devoted 100 programmers to develop cute email app animations, and probably 1 poor guy to develop the underlying machinery, the email app has close to zero configuration options (as almost all other apps). in particular, it is impossible to prevent the email app from downloading pictures in emails. this is one of the few certainly stupid things when dealing with spam, because each picture download from a spam message tells the spammer that somebody received it. and thus makes him happy and also a bit richer. and in order to do anything with a message other than deleting it (such as moving it to a spam folder), you have to open it. i surely appreciate the nice little jumping trick that each message delivers when it is moved to the spam folder, but i'd appreciate it even more if apple would let me do that without first making a spammer very happy...
oh, and anybody else having the map app crashing rather frequently and in a reproducible way? it happens quite a bit and proves that you can get to the iphone home screen even without pressing this only button on the iphone, simply crash the app you're working with...
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